Hi all!
So I am going into my senior year of high school and am very interested in pursuing a BSN. Ultimately I am very interested in becoming a neonatal nurse practictioner, and I can’t wait to get started, though I know it will be a lot of work.
I am currently looking at schools with BSN programs, and the four I was looking most at were University of Washington, Azusa Pacific University, UCLA, and UPenn. I don’t know what my chances are, but these are some statistics:
Freshman year GPA: 4.0 (unweighted)
Sophomore year GPA: 4.0 (unweighted)
Junior year GPA: 4.6 (4.0 unweighted)
SAT: 2210
ACT: 34
I took a few Subject tests (Spanish and US History) and got a 5 on the AP US History AP test, and I took English Honors and Spanish Honors as well as AP Biology and AP US History. During my senior year, I will be taking AP Statistics, AP Composition and Literature, AP Human Geography and International Relations, AP Goverment and Economics, and Physiology and Anatomy, and I intend to work hard despite the well known senioritis
In terms of extra-curriculars, I am varsity speech and debate captain and I run cross country and also did track and field, and was a coxswain on the rowing team. I tutor other kids on the ACT and SAT, babysit, tutor junior high kids in math, and shadowed at a clinic that primarily serves low-income immigrant TB patients. I got my Gold Award in Girl Scouts when I did a project with low-income students at a local preschool and taught them about nutrition and made a multi-cultural cookbook and published it with all their family recipes.
I know that some of the schools require supplemental applications and essays about why you want to be a nurse. I didn’t know exactly what to write, but I was planning on focusing on how when I was 13 I had brain surgery for a pituitary cyst and how the nurses I had (both horrible and wonderful) made me realize the difference that a good nurse can make in someone’s life, and how that inspired me to want to make that positive difference for someone else.
Anyway, if anyone has insight into my chances, especially for UPenn, that would be so appreciated! Thank you!
Also, if you have info on the schools themselves, how people like them, the difficulty level, all of it is welcome!
